A rich history and great future

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QMI Solutions: a rich history and great future

Gary Christian, CEO

QMI Solutions

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• Est. 1993 under a technology diffusion program with Qld Govt

• Founding partners DBIRD, CSIRO, QUT and TAFE

• Exposing Queensland industry to stereolithography – the

forerunner to 3D printing

• Other technologies:

– Water-jet cutting

– CAD/CAM

– Casting technologies (Mg, sand investment)

– Selective Laser Sintering

– Virtual reality and process simulation

– Incremental sheet forming

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• Hard technologies (machinery & software) were only part of the

solution

• Industry needed best practice to optimise technology and

efficiency

• Soft technologies

– Product development management (Stage Gate)

– Lean manufacturing suite

– Process optimisation

– Benchmarking as a continuous improvement tool

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• Arrival of mining/resources boom:

– Skills shortage

– Supply chain optimisation

– Major project engagement

– Commercialisation and collaboration

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• Skills shortage

– Industry Skills Body for manufacturing and engineering

– Training needs – region/sector

– Key conduit between industry and government

– Brokered over 4,000 places through Productivity Places Program

– Programs: Gateway schools, Women who Weld

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• Supply chain optimisation and major project engagement

– Merge with ICN Queensland

• Local Industry Participation Plans

• Capability enhancement – MPSP

• Awareness and engagement with major projects

• National approach – ICN Gateway

• Black Business Finder – www.bbf.org.au

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• Commercialisation and Collaboration

– Merge with the Australian Institute for Commercialisation

• Entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs

• Navigate the commercialisation pathway

• Manage and convert IP/ideas into reality

• Link researchers and industry

• Thought leaders in applied innovation

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• Partnerships with government

– Qld Govt since before 1993

– A trusted partner in delivering policy for government

– Depts State Development, Education & Training, Science &

Innovation

• Small Business, Attorney-General, Tourism, Commonwealth

Games, Public Works & Housing, Agriculture

– Bi-partisan support

– Agile partnership

• GFC-tailored programs

• Disaster recovery

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• Trusted partner

– Able to quantify value of our government programs, from 2008-2013:

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$341M753

jobs

22:1

ROI

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• Federal government

– Entrepreneurs’ Infrastructure Programme

– AusIndustry

– Industry Skills Fund

– Supplier Access to Major Projects

• Local Government

– Sunshine Coast, Logan City, Gold Coast, Brisbane.

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• Our well-known brands – Industry Capability Network Queensland

– Supported by Qld Govt through Dept State Development

– ICN Gateway

• 70,000 nationally, 20,000+ Qld

• Projects worth $440B

• Wins for Qld companies since 2006 $3B+

– Leverage points

• Tier Barometer

• MPSP online

• Embedments

• Nextgen supply chains

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• Our well-known brands – Australian Institute for Commercialisation

– Supported by Qld Govt through Dept Science, IT & Innovation

– Ideas2Market

– Qld Inventor’s Service

– Innovation clinics

– IP workshops

– Market research

– Leverage points

• Design-led innovation

• Business-model innovation

• Commercialisation pathways

• NB: Logan Health Innovation hub

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• A renewal process

– New board members

– New location

– New strategy, based on:

• conversations with customers: industry, government and academia

• what world class companies are doing

• extensive data within the organisation

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We empower business

and connect expertise

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We bring new ideas and

business tools to solve

Australian industry’s challenges

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We believe everything we do with

Australian industry today better equips

them to compete tomorrow

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• Benchmarking data

– 1400 companies over 10 years

– Split into pre-GFC and post-GFC samples

– What makes a competitive SME in a post-GFC environment?

– Five common characteristics

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1. Technology

• effective ways for SMEs to source and optimise technology

• increase productivity and output

• improve high-end skills development

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2. Systems

• integration of skills and technology

• repeatable and geared towards maximum productivity

• applying innovation

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3. Skills

• accredited and non-accredited skills development

• anticipating emerging skills needs – region and/or sector

• career pathways

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4. Opportunities

• new relationships and new markets

• emerging areas of demand overseas

• business matching and addressing capability gaps

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5. Collaboration

• partnering to enhance capability

• better visibility and understanding between research/industry

• innovative collaboration models

• network connections

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A great future

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• Strategy activation

– leveraging our rich history

– alignment with government programs

– launching new products (Core Value)

– keeping in touch with market needs (procurement)

– seeking collaborative partnerships

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QMI Solutions

16 Cinderella Road, SPRINGWOOD, QLD 4127 Australia

T. 07 3364 0700 F. 07 3364 0786

Want to know more?

email info@qmisolutions.com.au